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Vox for August 7, 2011

Posted: August 7, 2011 - 12:07am

Savannah

POLITICS

“I look forward to the day when liberalism is finally eradicated from America. It’s a cancer on any society; just look at Europe. As if the damage to the economy weren’t enough, along with it comes moral decay. Our liberal leaders must believe we are an ignorant people who do not comprehend what liberalism/socialism is all about. Liberalism preys on the weak and uneducated, consigning them to permanent poverty and dependence. I have great faith in God and the American people. Be encouraged. Better days are ahead.”

“Bill Herbkersman’s presumption his friend Tim Scott will win re-election was premature. Tim Scott is losing friends fast in our new postal district and Congress from his votes for Ryan and the tea party’s antics over the debt ceiling.”

VOX TO VOX

“My name is Gary Hodges and I am the mayor of Ridgeland. My comments are directed to the caller whom I will refer to as the ‘Bigot in Bluffton’ who made the statement about affordable housing in Bluffton in the BT Buzz section last Sunday. The bigot stated that ‘If you are lazy enough and don’t want to work you should live in a trailer in Ridgeland.’ The bigot went on to say ‘Let’s not keep them around here. Let’s move them out. Let’s make this place greater.’ Such comments are an insult to the people of Ridgeland. We consider our town to be the most charming community in South Carolina, and we work hard every day to make things better. We have a lot of things going in our favor and the most obvious is that the bigot in Bluffton doesn’t live here. The bigot’s comments are also an insult to the people in Bluffton because they work very hard to improve their community. I’m convinced that Bluffton would be a greater place if the bigot would simply move out of state.”

“Enough negative comments about low-income housing. Somebody has to be poor.”

“This is for the Vox caller concerned about conditions in Somalia. From the turn of the 20th century until the 1960s Somalia was ruled by an emperor named Haile Selassie. He was also known as ‘The Lion of Judah.’ The situation today is just as bad as it was when the emperor was in power. There is corruption. That’s just the way it’s always been. People in our country have always sent food and medicine to alleviate the situation but it doesn’t get any better.”

Editor’s note: Haile Selassie I, born 1892, was regent of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930 and emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. The country was ruled by a monarchy with a dynasty dating from the 2nd century B.C. It is currently a federal parliamentary republic. Somalia is due east of Ethiopia and was ruled by various Somali sultanates until the late 19th century, when Britain and Italy began to occupy portions. In 1941 it became completely under British control until Mohamed Siad Barre seized power and ran a communist regime from 1969 until 1991 when the government collapsed. Now the people rule themselves as best they can where they are while a transitional government attempts to stabilize the nation long enough to hold elections in 2012. Despite having the longest coastline of any African nation, Somalia is currently undergoing the worst drought in 60-plus years.

“Americans have lived under the Constitution for 225 years.”

Editor’s note: It’s surprisingly roomy.

“The Vox conservative understands a liberal? I want you to take paper and pen in hand. On one side write ‘Liberal,’ on the other, write ‘Conservative.’ From the ‘We the people’ perspective write Liberal and Conservative positions. Let me start you off. Under ‘Liberal,’ write consumer protection, vaccination programs, highways, schools, police and firemen. Now on the Conservative side write large tax advantages for the rich, tax loopholes that produce jobs in China, two wars not paid for. Get the idea?”

U.S. CONSTITUTION

“George Washington said, ‘The power under the Constitution will always be in the people’. The new congressmen truly represent ‘we the people’. We told them to stop spending money we don’t have. They carried out the will of the people. Thank God for the Constitution.”

BLUFFTON

“I was driving down U.S. 278 between Simmonsville Road and the bridge. It seems that the speed limit there is about 65 to 70 mph. I was in the left hand lane when I got on, and to keep up with traffic I had to go at least 65 mph. I moved to the middle lane and there were speeders there also, going 65 mph. Where are the police?”

“Why aren’t serious crimes that take place in Bluffton neighborhoods not covered in the Bluffton newspaper?”

Editor’s note: We’re presuming you mistakenly added an unneeded “not,” but if we missed a story, call our news tip line at 815-0843.

OBAMA

“Please tell your Vox caller that President Obama does not need the Republicans to help make him look bad. That’s the one thing he can do expertly all by himself.”

“Without the debt deal the Congress would have ceased to function, but would anyone have noticed?”

“Headline News: Obama finally reads tea leaves correctly. Elections do have consequences. The tea party has shown us the way to save us from the reckless runaway spending by Pelosi, Reid, Obama and the liberal left.”

“I’d like to correct two things in the Vox. President Reagan only raised the debt ceiling 18 times instead of 19 times. He still left a deficit when he left office. Democrats were not in charge of Congress in 2011, the Republicans were.”

“I can’t understand why Congress approved the expenditure of $770 million dollars to fix a sewer system under the mosque in Egypt. How is this helping America?”

Editor’s note: That’s one heck of a bathroom.

THIS AND THAT

“I could almost cry today. I was at Enmark. There was a woman there with a young child in a car seat. There was loud music just booming so loudly coming from the car. That poor child’s hearing! Don’t young moms know that a child’s hearing is still developing? Talk to your pediatrician about it. Their ears are still developing. Please turn the volume down.”

“I think if I hear ‘kick the can down the road’ or ‘at the end of the day’ one more time, my head will explode right off my body. I’m pretty sure.”

Editor’s note: Moving forward, we can get on board with that.

“The three Sun City resident board members need to resign. They are silent when it is appropriate to support residents and make no attempt to publicly challenge the developer who refuses to work with residents.”

“We keep seeing TV ads for free stuff that people can get if they are on Medicare, like electric scooters, free cookbooks and other books that tell us what to eat. Who pays for all this ‘free’ stuff? Who pays for the ads? We do. I thought we paid Medicare premiums to partially cover doctor and hospital expenses. Is Medicare now in the scooter and cookbook business? What’s next?”

Editor’s note: Federally subsidized Snuggies.

BT

“What? No Vox? No Vox? I hope you get a thousand telephone calls.”

“I’ve been away on vacation, but clearly Barbara Kelly’s lack of sense has not. I’d like to know when the last time she got on an airplane was, because you absolutely can not not not get on an airplane without a photo ID. As a matter of fact, we needed photo IDs just to check into hotels that we’d already reserved with credit cards. Using a photo ID to prove who you are to vote is the most common sense thing I’ve heard yet. Stop fighting the system.”

“Tuesday’s paper. 24 pages of which 12 were legal notices. Where do I get my refund?”

CAR WARS

“IMC Resort Services has a security guard that patrols The Farm and they’ve been writing everybody tickets for parking on the grass even if it’s just a wheel touching one blade of grass. So today I pull into The Farm and what do I see? The security is parked up on the grass. Way to enforce those rules, buddy.”

“This is a little shout-out to a lady who is parked in the fire lane in front of Kroger around 12:30 today... really nice to see that you’re an active member of the community and your parenting skills with leaving your infant and other child sitting in the car while it was running in the fire lane so that you could waddle yourself into the store to get something. Absolutely disgusting what I saw today. And you don’t deserve to have kids.”

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